Staff Software Engineer (Product + Platform Development) at Trase Systems
Seattle, WA
$180,000–$240,000from the description
Jul 23, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior hands-on engineering role split between building a core AI platform and deploying it directly within customer environments. The engineer owns the full arc from discovery through production — designing backend services, APIs, integrations, and AI-enabled workflows (including LLM-based approaches) while embedding with customer teams to surface requirements and feed insights back into the platform. Suits an experienced engineer comfortable setting technical direction in ambiguous, security-conscious settings.
Staff level · 8+ years · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
Location is not specified in the posting; no CBSA or state could be determined. The role may be remote or location-flexible, but the JD does not explicitly state fully remote — it notes 'some travel to customers may be required,' suggesting a physical presence component.
The Requirements section names AI/ML and LLM techniques (RAG, guardrails, evals) as required capabilities but does not gate on any specific named framework or cloud platform — those appear only under Preferred Qualifications and are marked accordingly.
Backend engineering, distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure are listed together in a single Requirements bullet as an 'or' list of experience areas; they are marked required because they sit in the Requirements section, though a candidate strong in any subset would likely qualify.
The seniority is assessed as Staff (not Senior) because the JD explicitly titles the role 'Staff Software Engineer' and describes cross-team technical direction-setting, architecture ownership, and shaping platform roadmap — scope that genuinely exceeds a typical Senior IC role.
Salary range of $180,000–$240,000/year is stated explicitly in the posting.
Ignored 3 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): backend engineering, workflow orchestration, data governance.
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